PodSpec » macroeconomics http://podspec.com Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Rewriting Macroeconomics Curriculum http://podspec.com/2010/04/04/rewriting-macroeconomics-curriculum/ http://podspec.com/2010/04/04/rewriting-macroeconomics-curriculum/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:12:28 +0000 cs http://podspec.com/?p=297 IN MORE than 30 years of teaching introductory macroeconomics, says Alan Blinder of Princeton University, he has never seen interest as high as it was last year. At Harvard, says David Laibson, students in his undergraduate macroeconomics course are “chomping at the bit”.

At elite American universities, where endowments have shrivelled and hiring is down, increased [...]]]> http://podspec.com/2010/04/04/rewriting-macroeconomics-curriculum/feed/ 0 Foundations of Economic Analysis http://podspec.com/2009/12/17/foundations-of-economic-analysis/ http://podspec.com/2009/12/17/foundations-of-economic-analysis/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:41:29 +0000 cs http://podspec.com/?p=257 Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94.

His death was announced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which Mr. Samuelson helped build into one of the world’s great centers of graduate education in [...]]]> http://podspec.com/2009/12/17/foundations-of-economic-analysis/feed/ 0